I agree with most of the positive comments here.
However, I will say the ending was a big letdown. I mean the way they supercharged the gravity gun at the end made for some cool game play, but it just didn't seem like the layout for the levels at the end was near as cool as some other spots.
It really seemed like they hurried the ending a little. Especially the final fight sequence which was way too unimaginative. That said, I'm glad I bought it.
There's really nothing that exciting going on in this story. We've been using laser-ish communications with KA and other band satellites for years. The only difference is that we're trying to use them over bigger distances and probably a different wavelength. Big whoop.
What would be really cool is if they started using quantum entanglement for communications. So basically, you entangle a huge number of particles, send half of them off to Mars and keep half here. Then you just wiggle or change the spin of a series of entangled particles on Mars and observe the affect instantaneously here on earth. I.e. no 20 minutes of latency in communications, it's instantaneous! Once we got that down to a science we'd just need to ship a canister of new entangled particles on a regular basis. Now that would be cool.
The day AOL goes bankrupt is the day I dance in the streets!
All that pain and suffering they put me through back in '93-'94 when I first started using the net. Though I must say the eventual rise of the IM hacking tools was rather amusing for a bit there:) I tried the Q-Tip tool on a friend of mine but didn't see anything obvious happening to him so I logged off. Then about 15 minutes later he calls to tell me I locked up his computer for that whole time, he couldn't even three key salute the thing:)
Yes, that's wonderful. And since gnome hides the actual program name, actually killing the process if it runs away or starting up one via shell or remote X session is more fun! Let's all give three cheers for Gconf while we're at it too. There's nothing like changing your default fonts and such in a registry editing tool. You see, users are too dumb, so we'll make it so they use a registry editing tool to make basic changes. The reason gnome is cool is because of all the GTK apps out there, but KDE is starting too allow better themeing & such with GTK apps so my hope is that the gnome DE will eventually die, while people are still free to create all those buggy quick & dirty ubber 31337 C apps that use GTK.
The reason nobody can find it is because it's probably not there. The modern mountains in Turkey were named from the account in the Bible as people thought that was the place, but in actuality the real location isn't known for sure. It's just the "traditional" site. Just like Mount Sinai is actually just across the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. But anyway, that's just my opinion, for some interesting research look at:
For those few of you that missed it, SCO also announced that they've been awarded a patent on the internet.
They've just sent a letter to AOL threatening to litigate them unless they pony up 5% of their revenue. They also made noises in the letter about how so many people are free-loading and building on top of their Internet IP without compensating SCO. So except to see a slew of lawsuits against ISPs and maybe even average internet users.
Microsoft has offered to indemnify MSN users from potential lawsuits.
Al Gore also has posted an open letter online decrying the patent award and vows to prove prior art.
I think it was Pepsi that was researching a pop can that had some kind of coating on the inside so when you open the top, the coating reacts with the oxygen and instantly cools the can down.
Why don't Coke and Pepsi do something useful like that instead of stupid publicity stunts:)
Wait, I know, because it would mean less per-product profit, and higher customer satisfaction. Wouldn't want that.
They must! Cause last I checked NASA already had an ION engine probe that visited a meteor (to lazy to find link). The mission is already complete, and they actually landed the probe on the meteor (asteroid whatever) at the end of the mission.
So I don't know how the ESA can claim to be the first, must be some fun little technicality they're using. And the NASA one had automatic onboard navigation too. Using pictures of the stars to figure out position.
I've playe with this awhile back and I must say it was nice. Has removet printing support and file transfer (if I'm not mistaken). THE two things that the VNC original AT&T people didn't put in.
And it's too bad, cause if they had, we'd all be using it. But anyway, the fact that some of this software is OSS is kinda nice. A nice gesture from what seems a nice company.
Very simple. You have one person or a group that are trusted. They create and distribute a PGP/GPG whatever, public key to all the people who want to be a part of the network.
Then every time a list goes out or a list is queried, you just check the key signature on it to make sure it came from the trusted people.
So list creation is centralized (like it is now) but distribution is distributed. Easy to verify, hard to DDoS.
Bingo.
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I agree with most of the positive comments here. However, I will say the ending was a big letdown. I mean the way they supercharged the gravity gun at the end made for some cool game play, but it just didn't seem like the layout for the levels at the end was near as cool as some other spots.
It really seemed like they hurried the ending a little. Especially the final fight sequence which was way too unimaginative. That said, I'm glad I bought it.
There's really nothing that exciting going on in this story. We've been using laser-ish communications with KA and other band satellites for years. The only difference is that we're trying to use them over bigger distances and probably a different wavelength. Big whoop.
What would be really cool is if they started using quantum entanglement for communications. So basically, you entangle a huge number of particles, send half of them off to Mars and keep half here. Then you just wiggle or change the spin of a series of entangled particles on Mars and observe the affect instantaneously here on earth. I.e. no 20 minutes of latency in communications, it's instantaneous! Once we got that down to a science we'd just need to ship a canister of new entangled particles on a regular basis. Now that would be cool.
The day AOL goes bankrupt is the day I dance in the streets! All that pain and suffering they put me through back in '93-'94 when I first started using the net. Though I must say the eventual rise of the IM hacking tools was rather amusing for a bit there :) I tried the Q-Tip tool on a friend of mine but didn't see anything obvious happening to him so I logged off. Then about 15 minutes later he calls to tell me I locked up his computer for that whole time, he couldn't even three key salute the thing :)
Yes, that's wonderful. And since gnome hides the actual program name, actually killing the process if it runs away or starting up one via shell or remote X session is more fun! Let's all give three cheers for Gconf while we're at it too. There's nothing like changing your default fonts and such in a registry editing tool. You see, users are too dumb, so we'll make it so they use a registry editing tool to make basic changes. The reason gnome is cool is because of all the GTK apps out there, but KDE is starting too allow better themeing & such with GTK apps so my hope is that the gnome DE will eventually die, while people are still free to create all those buggy quick & dirty ubber 31337 C apps that use GTK.
The reason nobody can find it is because it's probably not there. The modern mountains in Turkey were named from the account in the Bible as people thought that was the place, but in actuality the real location isn't known for sure. It's just the "traditional" site. Just like Mount Sinai is actually just across the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. But anyway, that's just my opinion, for some interesting research look at:
/ /www.noahsarksearch.com/iran.htm
http://www.ldolphin.org/franz-sinai.html
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For those few of you that missed it, SCO also announced that they've been awarded a patent on the internet. They've just sent a letter to AOL threatening to litigate them unless they pony up 5% of their revenue. They also made noises in the letter about how so many people are free-loading and building on top of their Internet IP without compensating SCO. So except to see a slew of lawsuits against ISPs and maybe even average internet users. Microsoft has offered to indemnify MSN users from potential lawsuits. Al Gore also has posted an open letter online decrying the patent award and vows to prove prior art.
I think it was Pepsi that was researching a pop can that had some kind of coating on the inside so when you open the top, the coating reacts with the oxygen and instantly cools the can down. Why don't Coke and Pepsi do something useful like that instead of stupid publicity stunts :)
Wait, I know, because it would mean less per-product profit, and higher customer satisfaction. Wouldn't want that.
They must! Cause last I checked NASA already had an ION engine probe that visited a meteor (to lazy to find link). The mission is already complete, and they actually landed the probe on the meteor (asteroid whatever) at the end of the mission. So I don't know how the ESA can claim to be the first, must be some fun little technicality they're using. And the NASA one had automatic onboard navigation too. Using pictures of the stars to figure out position.
I've playe with this awhile back and I must say it was nice. Has removet printing support and file transfer (if I'm not mistaken). THE two things that the VNC original AT&T people didn't put in. And it's too bad, cause if they had, we'd all be using it. But anyway, the fact that some of this software is OSS is kinda nice. A nice gesture from what seems a nice company.
Very simple. You have one person or a group that are trusted. They create and distribute a PGP/GPG whatever, public key to all the people who want to be a part of the network. Then every time a list goes out or a list is queried, you just check the key signature on it to make sure it came from the trusted people. So list creation is centralized (like it is now) but distribution is distributed. Easy to verify, hard to DDoS. Bingo.